South Asia
Christians have been targetted in three recent incidents of persecution in Sri Lanka, according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. In Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka, around 7:40 am on 21 October soon ...
Aasia Bibi remains in fear of her life in protective custory in Pakistan a week after a Supreme Court exoneration which should have led to her immediate release and secure asylum in another country. In ...
Mass protests are being staged against the Aasia Bibi ‘not guilty’ verdict in Pakistan’s cities. Police moved to protect Youhannabad, Lahore’s largest Christian community. Other protests are underway in Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar following the announcement ...
Aasia Bibi has been found ‘not guilty’ of all charges of blasphemy by Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nasir. Protests by Islamist groups and political parties are being staged in major Pakistani cities and the beleaguered Christian community ...
The Pakistan Islamist Tehreek-i-Labbaik party has threatened to paralyse the country within hours if the Supreme Court releases Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy” in 2010. Local leaders have already been called ...
Pakistan Christian, Aasia Bibi who has been under an eight-year death sentence ordeal on charges of blasphemy, now faces a further delay. A three-judge panel at Pakistan’s Supreme Court delayed handing down its verdict on Aasia Bibi’s ...
A mob of Muslim neighbours attacked and set fire to the home of a Christian family in the Punjab village of Gujar Khan on 21 September, in a horrific eviction. Bashir Masih, a 60-yaer-old retired Christian ...
A Pakistani Christian girl was left potentially paralysed in hospital after she was thrown off the roof of a building by a Muslim suitor for refusing marriage. The family of Benish Paul, a schoolgirl in year ...
A Pakistani government body posted an advert for a menial sweeper job with “Christian” listed as an occupational requirement for applicants. The advert ran in newspapers in Peshawar and was posted by the Board of Intermediate ...
A Pakistani Christian father and his sons were brutally beaten in an assault by Muslims for refusing to move out of the neighbourhood in which they live. John Elvin, who works as a nurse, and his ...
